Book  (1998)  Page(s) 87.  
 
C. reticulata.
Supplied to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ke, by Rodger, M'Clelland & Co., and figured in Curtis's Botanical Magazine.
ref: Curtis's Botanical Magazine tab. 6574.

Book  (1901)  Page(s) 180-2.  
 
Clematis reticuláta, another climber with solitary and nodding flowers belongs exclusively to the south. Its dull purplish sepals are lanceolate and quite woolly on their inner margins. The pinnate leaves bear oval, or ovate leaflets, entire and thick, although among them those are seen which are lobed. The very blonde tails of the achenes are of great length and extremely pretty.

Magazine  (30 Jul 1892)  Page(s) 73.  
 
C. reticulata Walt., de la Géorgie; fleurs pourpres.

Magazine  (1882)  Page(s) 372.  
 
C. reticulata, Walt., Bot. Mag., pl. 6514. — Arbuste grimpant, à tige grêle, très rameuse, glabre, avec les dernières ramifications pubescentes ; feuilles réticulées, les supérieures simples, elliptiques, obtuses ou apiculées, les inférieures pennées, à 7-9 folioles oblongues ou lancéolées; fleur solitaire, pendante, portée sur un long pédoncule pubescent ; périanthe ovoïde, verdâtre et pourpré, à sépales lancéolés, pubescents, connivents, sauf au sommet où ils sont récurvés. Du sud des Etats-Unis.

Magazine  (1 Dec 1881)  Page(s) tab 6594.  
 
Review of the North American climbing species of Clematis, with compound leaves and thick or thickish erect sepals.
3. C. reticulata, Walt. Native of the Southern Atlantic States east of the Mississippi. The Texan specimens referred to it do not belong to this species, which is well marked by the above characters, and by the excessive and prominent reticulation of the firm coriaceous leaves. The C. reticulata figured in Watson, Dendr. Brit., as Lindley has stated, appears to be C. Viticella. Perhaps it is that hybrid between C. Viticella and C. integrifolia which is known in the gardens under the name of C. Hendersonii. C. ovata, Pursh., of which the original specimens in Herb. Oxon. have leaves almost as reticulated as this when old, appears to be C. ochroleuca, Ait.

Magazine  (1 Aug 1881)  Page(s) tab 6574.  Includes photo(s).
 
Clematis reticulata.
Native of the Southern United States.
Nat. Ord. Ranunculaceae. — Tribe Clematideae.
Genus Clematis, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. vol. i. p. 3.)
Clematis reticulata ; caule gracile scandente ramoso glabro, ramulis gracillimis sericeo-pubescentibus v. glabratis, foliis coriaceis gracile petiolatis superioribus integris ellipticis v. elliptico-lanceolatis integerrimis, inferioribus pinnatis 7-9-foliolatis, foliolis multiformibus integris v. irregulariter paucilobatis obtusis, basi saepissime cuneatis, nervis nervulisque utrinque prominentibus creberrime reticulatis, floribus solitariis longe pedunculatis, perianthio ovoideo sericeo, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis erectis apicibus acutis recurvis crasse coriaceis sulcatis marginibus incrassatis non vittatis, acheniorum caudis elongatis plumosis persistentibus.
C. reticulata, Walt. Flor. Carolin. p. 156 ; Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 318 ; DC. Syst. vol. i. p. 157 ; Prodr. vol. i. p. 7 ; Torr. and Gr. Ft. N. Am. vol. i. pp. 10, 658 ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub. tab. 60 ; Enqelm. and Gray, Plant Lindh. p. 3 ; Chapm. Fl. S. U. States, p. 4 ; S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. N. Am Bot. p. 11.

Dr. Lindley, writing in 1846, remarks under Clematis crispa, " The plants cultivated in our Gardens under the names of Clematis viorna, crispa, reticulata, cylindrica, rosea, &c, present a scene of confusion such as is rare among Botanical compilations ;" and he proceeds to devote four pages to unravelling the synonymy and defining the characters of the first four of these species. Not successfully, however, for he refers the C. crispa of this work (Tab. 1892) to the present plant, though the excellent figure there given differs not in any particular from that of his own C. crispa, and differs wholly from C. reticulata, both in the foliage and in having very broad undulate margins of the sepals.
Clematis reticulata ranges in the Southern United States east of the Mississippi, from South Carolina to Florida. The specimen here figured is from a plant grown at Kew in the open border, received from Messrs. Rodger McLelland and Co., under the name of G. Fremonti, a very different species, with very large leaves and no tails to the achenes. The flowers which appear in September are much paler than as described in native specimens. The plant was nearly killed by last winters' cold, and is only now beginning to grow again.

Descr. A rambling climber, with very slender much-branched glabrous stems, and pubescent branchlets. Leaves leathery and very closely reticulate with prominent nerves on both surfaces, upper simple, elliptic, obtuse or apiculate, lower pinnate with seven to nine leaflets which are most variable in size and in shape, from oblong or lanceolate to rounded, and in being entire or lobed. Flowers solitary, pendulous on the ends of long slender naked pubescent peduncles. Perianth ovoid, an inch long, dull greenish and purplish. Sepals lanceolate, pubescent, connivent except at the recurved tips, thickly coriaceous and grooved, the margins not thinning out into a waved border. Filaments and slender anthers silky. Achenes with long silky tails.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower; 2, stamens; 3, carpel :— all enlarged.

Book  (1872)  Page(s) 138-139.  
 
C. RETICULATA, Walter.—There seems to have been some confusion in respect to this plant, which is a slender climbing species, growing from four to six feet high, furnished with pinnate leaves, having cordate-ovate leaflets, and bearing solitary flowers having coriaceous connivent sepals, recurved at the tips and somewhat crispy at the margin, forming nodding bell-shaped flowers, which appear about June and July. It is the same as C. Simsiï, which is figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 1892) under the name of C. crispa, and which appears to be identical with the C. cordata of the same work (t. 1816).

Book  (1840)  Page(s) 658.  
 
 C. reticulata (Walt. !) The specimen in Walter's herbarium, which is clearly the plant described by himself and Pursh, is labelled 'C. crispa'.

Book  (1840)  Page(s) 10.  
 

 C. reticulata (Walt.): peduncles 1-flowered; sepals rather coriaceous; leaves pinnate; leaflets 4 pairs, oval, undivided or lobed, obtuse, rigidly coriaceous, conspicuously reticulated on both sides, glabrous; carpels with plumose tails.-- Walt. Car. p. 156; Pursh, fl. 2. p. 385;. DC. prodr. 1. p. 7; Ell. sk. 2. p. 47; Michx.! fl. 1. p. 318.
S. Carolina, Georgia! and Florida! May-Aug.-Leaflets all petiolulate, 1-1½ inch long, undivided or variously lobed; the lowest pair 3-parted, sometimes rather acute and mucronate. Peduncles longer than the leaves. Flower as large as in C. crispa. Sepals dull purple, ovate-lanceolate, velvety externally. Tail of the carpels long.

Book  (1788)  Page(s) 156.  
 
Polyandria. Pentagynia...
Clematis reticulata 2. foliis pinnatis 4-jugis, foliolis ovatis integris reticulatis, cirrho inter par supremum; foliis floralibus simplicibus. Caudis plumosissimis.